Improvement in barbed fence-wire



N. CLARK. BARBED FENCE-WIRE.

No. 179,268. I Patented June 27,1876,

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UNITED STATES NORMAN CLARK, OF STERLING, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BARBED FENCE-WIRE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,268, dated June 2?, 1876; application filed May '51, 1876.

city of Sterling, in the county of \Vhitesidesand State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Barbed Fence- Wire, which improi ement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a side view; Fig. 2, an edge Fig. 4 represents the wire twisted. Figs. 5 and 6 are views in cross-section.

Letter A represents the wire; B, the barbs. G is the web from which the barb is .cut.

The object of my invention is to rapidly form barbed wire for fences from a single flattened wire, with somewhat concave sides, which wire may be shaped by passing it between rollers suitable to groove it, and then deliver the wire to cutters arranged in a proper manner to cut the barbs from the center or web, and turn them right and left in a curved form, so that their points will be at right angles to the wire from which they are out, thus forming a strong single wire with thickened edges and rigid barbs, which may Witnesses:

S. P. GIDDINGS, E. A. DAYTQN. 

